Core Group
Börries Kuzmany
University of Vienna, Institute for East European History
Research focus
- Time period: Mid-18th to mid-20th century
- Regional focus: Habsburg Monarchy, Eastern Europe, especially Poland, Ukraine, Soviet Union
- Topics: Studies of nationalism, minorities, history of ideas, urban history, border spaces, Jewish history, research on migrations, cultural history, transfer and comparison
Timo Aava
Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Research focus:
- Time period: late 19th and 20th century
- Regional focus: Eastern Europe, Baltic states, Russian Empire
- Topics: political history, history of ideas, Jewish history, nationalism, minorities, migration
Oskar Mulej
University of Vienna, Institute for East European History
Research focus:
- Time period: Mid-19th to mid.-20th century
- Regional focus: Habsburg Monarchy, Central and Southeastern Europe, especially Yugoslavia, Austria and Czechoslovakia
- Topics: political history, history of ideas, political ideologies and movements, liberalism, nationalism, minorities, transfer and comparison, local history
Yuki Murata
University of Vienna, Institute for East European History
Research focus:
- Time period: End of 19th to mid.-20th Century
- Regional focus: Ukraine, Russian Empire, Soviet Union
- Topics: Nationalism, research on empires, political ideas and ideologies, minorities, autonomy and federalism, war and violence, identity
Stephanie Ziehaus
University of Vienna, Institute for History
Research focus:
- Time period: late 18th to early 20th centuries
- Regional focus: Eastern Siberia, the Russian Far East, China’s Northeast
- Topics: ethnicity and ethnic identity, ethnic minorities, + empire building, colonialism, borderlands, Russian Empire, Qing Empire, indigenous self-governance